1. Plato, Laws, 700a (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •cicero (orator and writer) Found in books: Csapo et al., Theatre and Autocracy in the Ancient World (2022) 6| 700a. ΜΕ. λέγεις εὖ· πειρῶ δʼ ἔτι σαφέστερον ἡμῖν σημῆναι τὸ νῦν λεγόμενον. ΑΘ. ἔσται ταῦτα. οὐκ ἦν, ὦ φίλοι, ἡμῖν ἐπὶ τῶν παλαιῶν νόμων ὁ δῆμός τινων κύριος, ἀλλὰ τρόπον τινὰ ἑκὼν ἐδούλευε τοῖς νόμοις. ΜΕ. ποίοις δὴ λέγεις; ΑΘ. τοῖς περὶ τὴν μουσικὴν πρῶτον τὴν τότε, ἵνα ἐξ ἀρχῆς διέλθωμεν τὴν τοῦ ἐλευθέρου λίαν ἐπίδοσιν βίου. διῃρημένη γὰρ δὴ τότε ἦν ἡμῖν ἡ μουσικὴ κατὰ εἴδη τε | 700a. Meg. Well said! Try, however, to make your meaning still more clear to us. Ath. I will. Under the old laws, my friends, our commons had no control over anything, but were, so to say, voluntary slaves to the laws. Meg. What laws do you mean? Ath. Those dealing with the music of that age, in the first place,—to describe from its commencement how the life of excessive liberty grew up. Among us, at that time, music was divided into various classes and styles: |
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2. Aristotle, Politics, 1310b (4th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •cicero (orator and writer) Found in books: Csapo et al., Theatre and Autocracy in the Ancient World (2022) 6 | 1310b. And the things that happen about royal governments and tyrannies are almost similar to those that have been narrated about constitutional governments. For royal government corresponds with aristocracy, while tyranny is a combination of the last form of oligarchy and of democracy; and for that very reason it is most harmful to its subjects, inasmuch as it is a combination of two bad things, and is liable to the deviations and errors that spring from both forms of constitution. And these two different sorts of monarchy have their origins from directly opposite sources; royalty has come into existence for the assistance of the distinguished against the people, and a king is appointed from those distinguished by superiority in virtue or the actions that spring from virtue, or by superiority in coming from a family of that character, while a tyrant is set up from among the people and the multitude to oppose the notables, in order that the people may suffer no injustice from them. And this is manifest from the facts of history. For almost the greatest number of tyrants have risen, it may be said, from being demagogues, having won the people's confidence by slandering the notables. For some tyrannies were set up in this manner when the states had already grown great, but others that came before them arose from kings departing from the ancestral customs and aiming at a more despotic rule, and others from the men elected to fill the supreme magistracies (for in old times the peoples used to appoint the popular officials and the sacred embassies for long terms of office), and others from oligarchies electing some one supreme official for the greatest magistracies. For in all these methods they had it in their power to effect their purpose easily, if only they wished, because they already possessed the power of royal rule in the one set of cases and of their honorable office in the other, for example Phidon in Argos and others became tyrants when they possessed royal power already, while the Ionian tyrants and Phalaris arose from offices of honor, and Panaetius at Leontini and Cypselus at Corinth and Pisistratus at Athens and Dionysius at Syracuse and others in the same manner from the position of demagogue. Therefore, as we said, royalty is ranged in correspondence with aristocracy, for it goes by merit, either by private virtue or by family or by services or by a combination of these things and ability. For in every instance this honor fell to men after they had conferred benefit or because they had the ability to confer benefit on their cities or their nations, some having prevented their enslavement in war, for instance Codrus, others having set them free, for instance Cyrus, or having settled or acquired territory, for instance the kings of Sparta and Macedon and the Molossians. And a king wishes to be a guardian, |
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| 3. Aristotle, Rhetoric, 1403b33 (4th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •cicero (orator and writer) Found in books: Csapo et al., Theatre and Autocracy in the Ancient World (2022) 6 |
| 4. Cicero, Letters, 1.6, 1.9, 1.15.1 (2nd cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •cicero (orator and writer) •cicero (orator and writer), villa decorations of •cicero (orator and writer), and greek entertainments Found in books: Csapo et al., Theatre and Autocracy in the Ancient World (2022) 95, 158 |
5. Cicero, Brutus, 4.10.1 (2nd cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •cicero (orator and writer) •cicero (orator and writer), villa decorations of Found in books: Csapo et al., Theatre and Autocracy in the Ancient World (2022) 158| 24. praeclare, inquam, Brute, dicis eoque magis ista dicendi laude delector quod cetera, quae sunt quon- dam habita in civitate pulcherrima pulcherrime FOG , nemo est tam humilis qui se non aut posse adipisci aut adeptum putet; eloquentem neminem video factum esse victoria. Sed quo facilius sermo explicetur, sedentes, si videtur, agamus. Cum idem placuisset illis, tum in pratulo propter Platonis statuam con- sedimus. | 24. "Your remark," said I, "is very just; and I have a higher opinion of the merit of eloquence, because, though there is scarcely any person so diffident as not to persuade himself, that he either has, or may acquire every other accomplishment which, formerly, could have given him consequence in the State; I can find no person who has been made an orator by the success of his military prowess.- But that we may carry on the conversation with greater ease, let us seat ourselves."As my visitors had no objection to this, we accordingly took our seats in a private lawn, near a statue of Plato. |
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6. Cicero, On The Ends of Good And Evil, 1.2 (2nd cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •cicero (orator and writer), and greek entertainments Found in books: Csapo et al., Theatre and Autocracy in the Ancient World (2022) 95| 1.2. contra quos omnis dicendum breviter existimo. Quamquam philosophiae quidem vituperatoribus satis responsum est eo libro, quo a nobis philosophia philosophia a nobis BE defensa et collaudata est, cum esset accusata et vituperata ab Hortensio. qui liber cum et tibi probatus videretur et iis, quos ego posse iudicare arbitrarer, plura suscepi veritus ne movere hominum studia viderer, retinere non posse. Qui autem, si maxime hoc placeat, placet BEV moderatius tamen id volunt fieri, difficilem quandam temperantiam postulant in eo, quod semel admissum admissum dett iam missum coe+rceri reprimique non potest, ut propemodum iustioribus utamur illis, qui omnino avocent a philosophia, quam his, qui rebus infinitis modum constituant in reque eo meliore, quo maior sit, mediocritatem desiderent. | |
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7. Cicero, On Duties, 1.2 (2nd cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •cicero (orator and writer), and greek entertainments Found in books: Csapo et al., Theatre and Autocracy in the Ancient World (2022) 95| 1.2. Quam ob rem disces tu quidem a principe huius aetatis philosophorum, et disces, quam diu voles; tam diu autem velle debebis, quoad te, quantum proficias, non paenitebit; sed tamen nostra legens non multum a Peripateticis dissidentia, quoniam utrique Socratici et Platonici volumus esse, de rebus ipsis utere tuo iudicio (nihil enim impedio), orationem autem Latinam efficies profecto legendis nostris pleniorem. Nec vero hoc arroganter dictum existimari velim. Nam philosophandi scientiam concedens multis, quod est oratoris proprium, apte, distincte, ornate dicere, quoniam in eo studio aetatem consumpsi, si id mihi assumo, videor id meo iure quodam modo vindicare. | |
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| 8. Cicero, De Oratore, 110 (2nd cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •cicero (orator and writer) •cicero (orator and writer), villa decorations of Found in books: Csapo et al., Theatre and Autocracy in the Ancient World (2022) 158 |
| 9. Cicero, Letters To His Friends, 7.23 (2nd cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •cicero (orator and writer) •cicero (orator and writer), villa decorations of Found in books: Csapo et al., Theatre and Autocracy in the Ancient World (2022) 158 |
| 10. Cicero, Letters To Quintus, 3.1.14 (2nd cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •cicero (orator and writer) •cicero (orator and writer), villa decorations of Found in books: Csapo et al., Theatre and Autocracy in the Ancient World (2022) 158 |
| 11. Cicero, Orator, 110 (2nd cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •cicero (orator and writer) •cicero (orator and writer), villa decorations of Found in books: Csapo et al., Theatre and Autocracy in the Ancient World (2022) 158 |
| 12. Horace, Odes, 1.16.17-1.16.18 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •cicero (orator and writer), philippics Found in books: Csapo et al., Theatre and Autocracy in the Ancient World (2022) 228 |
13. Pliny The Elder, Natural History, 35.9 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •cicero (orator and writer) •cicero (orator and writer), villa decorations of Found in books: Csapo et al., Theatre and Autocracy in the Ancient World (2022) 158 | 35.9. But it was the Dictator Caesar who gave outstanding public importance to pictures by dedicating paintings of Ajax and Medea in front of the temple of Venus Genetrix; and after him Marcus Agrippa, a man who stood nearer to rustic simplicity than to refinements. At all events there is preserved a speech of Agrippa, lofty in tone and worthy of the greatest of the citizens, on the question of making all pictures and statues national property, a procedure which would have been preferable to banishing them to country houses. However, that same severe spirit paid the city of Cyzicus 1,200,000 sesterces for two pictures, an Ajax and an Aphrodite; he had also had small paintings let into the marble even in the warmest part of his hot baths; which were removed a short time ago when the Baths were being repaired. |
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| 14. Juvenal, Satires, 2.4-2.5 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •cicero (orator and writer) •cicero (orator and writer), villa decorations of Found in books: Csapo et al., Theatre and Autocracy in the Ancient World (2022) 158 |
15. Seneca The Younger, Letters, 64.9-64.10 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •cicero (orator and writer) •cicero (orator and writer), villa decorations of Found in books: Csapo et al., Theatre and Autocracy in the Ancient World (2022) 158 | 64.9. Our predecessors have worked much improvement, but have not worked out the problem. They deserve respect, however, and should be worshipped with a divine ritual. Why should I not keep statues of great men to kindle my enthusiasm, and celebrate their birthdays? Why should I not continually greet them with respect and honour? The reverence which I owe to my own teachers I owe in like measure to those teachers of the human race, the source from which the beginnings of such great blessings have flowed. 64.9. Our predecessors have worked much improvement, but have not worked out the problem. They deserve respect, however, and should be worshipped with a divine ritual. Why should I not keep statues of great men to kindle my enthusiasm, and celebrate their birthdays? Why should I not continually greet them with respect and honour? The reverence which I owe to my own teachers I owe in like measure to those teachers of the human race, the source from which the beginnings of such great blessings have flowed. 64.10. If I meet a consul or a praetor, I shall pay him all the honour which his post of honour is wont to receive: I shall dismount, uncover, and yield the road. What, then? Shall I admit into my soul with less than the highest marks of respect Marcus Cato, the Elder and the Younger, Laelius the Wise, Socrates and Plato, Zeno and Cleanthes? I worship them in very truth, and always rise to do honour to such noble names. Farewell. |
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16. Suetonius, Tiberius, 70.2 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •cicero (orator and writer) •cicero (orator and writer), villa decorations of Found in books: Csapo et al., Theatre and Autocracy in the Ancient World (2022) 158 | 70.2. He also composed a lyric poem, entitled "A Lament for the Death of Lucius Caesar," and made Greek verses in imitation of Euphorion, Rhianus, and Parthenius, poets of whom he was very fond, placing their busts in the public libraries among those of the eminent writers of old; and on that account many learned men vied with one another in issuing commentaries on their works and dedicating them to the emperor. |
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| 17. Suetonius, Augustus, 45 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •cicero (orator and writer) •cicero (orator and writer), philippics •cicero (orator and writer), villa decorations of Found in books: Csapo et al., Theatre and Autocracy in the Ancient World (2022) 158, 228 |
| 18. Plutarch, Brutus, 21.5-21.6 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •cicero (orator and writer), and greek entertainments Found in books: Csapo et al., Theatre and Autocracy in the Ancient World (2022) 96 |
| 19. Pliny The Younger, Letters, 3.7, 4.28 (2nd cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •cicero (orator and writer) •cicero (orator and writer), villa decorations of Found in books: Csapo et al., Theatre and Autocracy in the Ancient World (2022) 158 |
20. Cassius Dio, Roman History, 59.5 (2nd cent. CE - 3rd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •cicero (orator and writer) •cicero (orator and writer), philippics •cicero (orator and writer), villa decorations of Found in books: Csapo et al., Theatre and Autocracy in the Ancient World (2022) 158, 228 | 59.5. This was the kind of emperor into whose hands the Romans were then delivered. Hence the deeds of Tiberius, though they were felt to have been very harsh, were nevertheless as far superior to those of Gaius as the deeds of Augustus were to those of his successor., For Tiberius always kept the power in his own hands and used others as agents for carrying out his wishes; whereas Gaius was ruled by the charioteers and gladiators, and was the slave of the actors and others connected with the stage. Indeed, he always kept Apelles, the most famous of the tragedians of that day, with him even in public., Thus he by himself and they by themselves did without let or hindrance all that such persons would naturally dare to do when given power. Everything that pertained to their art he arranged and settled on the slightest pretext in the most lavish manner, and he compelled the praetors and the consuls to do the same, so that almost every day some performance of the kind was sure to be given., At first he was but a spectator and listener at these and would take sides for or against various performers like one of the crowd; and one time, when he was vexed with those of opposing tastes, he did not go to the spectacle. But as time went on, he came to imitate, and to contend in many events,, driving chariots, fighting as a gladiator, giving exhibitions of pantomimic dancing, and acting in tragedy. So much for his regular behaviour. And once he sent an urgent summons at night to the leading men of the senate, as if for some important deliberation, and then danced before them. < 59.5. 1. This was the kind of emperor into whose hands the Romans were then delivered. Hence the deeds of Tiberius, though they were felt to have been very harsh, were nevertheless as far superior to those of Gaius as the deeds of Augustus were to those of his successor.,2. For Tiberius always kept the power in his own hands and used others as agents for carrying out his wishes; whereas Gaius was ruled by the charioteers and gladiators, and was the slave of the actors and others connected with the stage. Indeed, he always kept Apelles, the most famous of the tragedians of that day, with him even in public.,3. Thus he by himself and they by themselves did without let or hindrance all that such persons would naturally dare to do when given power. Everything that pertained to their art he arranged and settled on the slightest pretext in the most lavish manner, and he compelled the praetors and the consuls to do the same, so that almost every day some performance of the kind was sure to be given.,4. At first he was but a spectator and listener at these and would take sides for or against various performers like one of the crowd; and one time, when he was vexed with those of opposing tastes, he did not go to the spectacle. But as time went on, he came to imitate, and to contend in many events,,5. driving chariots, fighting as a gladiator, giving exhibitions of pantomimic dancing, and acting in tragedy. So much for his regular behaviour. And once he sent an urgent summons at night to the leading men of the senate, as if for some important deliberation, and then danced before them. < |
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| 21. Epigraphy, Roesch, Ithesp, 358 Tagged with subjects: •cicero (orator and writer) •cicero (orator and writer), philippics •cicero (orator and writer), villa decorations of Found in books: Csapo et al., Theatre and Autocracy in the Ancient World (2022) 158, 228 |
| 22. Epigraphy, Didyma, 233, 163 Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Csapo et al., Theatre and Autocracy in the Ancient World (2022) 228 |
